Pea noun ; plural Peas or Pease . [ Middle English pese , from Anglo-Saxon pisa , or Old French peis , French pois ; both from Latin pisum ; confer Greek ..., .... The final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Confer ...Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/37

1. <botany> A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. ... When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form ...Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?pea

• (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. • (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard. • (n.) See Peak, n., 3. • (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus ...Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pea/

any of several species, comprising hundreds of varieties, of herbaceous annual plants belonging to the family Leguminosae, grown virtually worldwide ... [4 related articles]Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/31

Peas (also known as green peas) are the green coloured, spherical seeds of the pea plant. When young, peas are known as petit pois. When the pods are picked before the seeds have formed, they are known as sugar snaps or mange tout.Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/QP.HTM

pea, hardy, annual, climbing leguminous plant (Pisum sativum) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), grown for food by humans at least since the early Bronze Age; no longer known in the wild form. It is cultivated everywhere in home gardens and on a large scale commercially for freezing or cannin...Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0837957.html

The pea is a climbing plant of the family Leguminosae. The seeds of the pea, which grow in a rectangular green pod with elongated ends, are a familiar vegetable. English folklore had it that if a young woman while shelling peas came across a pod containing nine peas, the next man to cross her threshold would become her husband.Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BP.HTM

Climbing leguminous plant (see legume) with pods of round green edible seeds, grown since prehistoric times for food. The pea is a popular vegetable and is eaten fresh, canned, frozen, or dried. The sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) of the same family is grown for its scented red, purple, pink, and white butterfly-shaped flowers&...Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0015041.html

The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a (pea) flower. The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae such as the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the co...Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea

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